Columbia barber shoots holdup suspect

COLUMBIA — Richland County deputies say the owner of a barbershop shot a man who tried to rob his business.

Investigators said two men planned a robbery when they entered All the Way Cuts and Styles in the northeast suburbs of Columbia around 7:30 p.m. Saturday

The owner of the barbershop was able to get a gun and shoot one of the suspects, while the other ran away. He was arrested a short time later.

Deputies say 22-year-old Ronald Capers is charged with seven counts of armed robbery and two counts of attempted murder. He remains in the Richland County jail without bond and it wasn’t clear if he had an attorney.

Authorities say the man who was shot in the chest remains in the hospital and has not been identified.

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Riverman1, not so sure. I checked another news source. That heading says barbershop owner "shoots" robbery suspect and the article is word for word what appears here. Not sure if the suspect is wounded in the hospital or if the suspect is dead in the hospital morgue.

Title of User, the way the article reads now is not hard to understand but the original article was misleading, the title didn't match the story. It may be plain as day now but not earlier when confused comments were written.